Arun Gupta
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Judgment day for Stewart Rhodes and the Oath Keepers
The government case charging Stewart Rhodes, founder and leader of the Oath Keepers militia, and four co-defendants of seditious conspiracy for their role in the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection is not a slam dunk. But with the case now before a jury after 29 days of testimony in a Federal District Court... → Read More
Meet the 'Replacement Killers' groomed by Trump and Tucker
Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson have convinced millions of Americans they need to kill or be killed: If conservative whites don’t act now, they will be wiped out and replaced by Black Lives Matter mobs, criminal immigrants, Islamic terrorists, and deviant gays. This is the great replacement conspira... → Read More
The Replacement Killers: How Trump and Tucker spawned a new breed of terrorists
He said he was “fighting for a dying race” and “fighting extinction” after his deadly rampage against Black people. He was caught before he could execute the next part of his plan: burst into a nearby synagogue and gun down “as many Jews as possible.” A troubled student who spent hours surfing the i... → Read More
Banning abortion is key to Trump’s fascist agenda
If a majority of Supreme Court justices follows through on its plans to outlaw abortion, then America will cross the threshold into full-blown fascism. This is controversial, so let me explain. Any discussion of fascism quickly veers into jargon, qualifiers, and deep history, because it can cover ma... → Read More
How Trump’s extremism turned the Oath Keepers from keyboard warriors into seditious coup plotters
In January former President Trump told supporters in Arizona, “If you’re white you don’t get the vaccine or if you’re white you don’t get therapeutics. … In New York state, if you’re white, you have to go to the back of the line to get medical health.” With that, Trump said the quiet part out loud. ... → Read More
The Road to Jan. 6: How 50 years of violent white nationalism inspired the Oath Keepers
The Jan. 13 filing of seditious conspiracy charges against 11 members of the Oath Keepers militia is one of the darkest and most important chapters in the history of right-wing extremism. The government case opens a window into the comically dangerous world of paranoid coup plotters who stormed the... → Read More
Road to Jan. 6: How Portland police grew to love the Proud Boys and paved the way for Trump’s insurrection
There were many points at which if the government had acted the Jan. 6 insurrection might never have happened.Leading up to the failed coup every alarm was ringing. Capitol Police knew a violent invasion was in the works, the Department of Homeland Security knew, the FBI knew, warning of “war at the... → Read More
From the Bundys to the Rotunda: How allowing far-right terrorism to fester led to Trump's Jan. 6 coup attempt
The sight of violent Trump supporters invading the Capitol a year ago may have been shocking but it was not surprising. It was the direct result of the government allowing right-wing political violence to smolder for years until it burst into a conflagration on Jan. 6. While far-right terrorism is t... → Read More
Stop treating the Jan. 6 insurrectionists with leniency. Throw the book at them — including Trump
Understanding why January 6 happened is not merely a question for the history books. It’s about the future. It’s about stopping Trump’s next coup — which has already begun. To that end, there is one big reason, much overlooked, why thousands of Trump-supporting conspiracists, extremists, and white ... → Read More
Years of impunity for right-wing extremists began with the Bundys and led to the failed Capitol Hill coup
The Raw Story went to the Bundy occupation five years ago and warned the impunity would "blaze into another firestorm." That's exactly what happened on the Capitol, and could happen again. → Read More
Refugees in the Time of Covid-19
Fleeing gangs and stalked by violence, thousands of asylum seekers trapped in Mexico now face the pandemic. → Read More
Riotlandia: Why Portland Has Become the Epicenter of Far-Right Violence
Police complicity and politicians’ inaction have allowed groups like the Proud Boys to stage violent spectacles again and again. → Read More
Let’s Talk About George H.W. Bush’s Role in the Iran-Contra Scandal
Hagiographies of the late president neglect his role in a secret war in Nicaragua and illegal weapons sales to Iran for the release of hostages. → Read More
Robert Bowers' synagogue attack is only one of 16 cases of white-supremacist killings since Trump was inaugurated
Far-right terrorism is a feature, not a bug, of Trump’s presidency → Read More
Why Young Men of Color Are Joining White-Supremacist Groups
Patriot Prayer’s leader is half-Japanese. Black and brown faces march with the Proud Boys. Is the future of hate multicultural? → Read More
Protester Maimed by Portland Police: ‘I Thought I Was Going to Die’
Demonstrators injured by a barrage of police stun grenades and other less-lethal weapons in Portland last weekend tell The Daily Beast the city became a terrifying war zone. → Read More
Portland protestor seriously wounded by flash-bang grenade fired by cops clearing way for alt-right marchers
Hundreds of far-right protesters from as far away as Florida gathered on the waterfront in Portland, Oregon for a “Freedom March” on Saturday. Dozens of those interviewed said they were there to utilize their “freedom of speech.” To do so, they came armed with bats, weighted fighting gloves, wooden poles, canisters of mace, knives, shields and body armor. The police had declared a day earlier… → Read More
Is Portland the next Charlottesville? City braces for Saturday rally by violent right-wing groups
After more than a year of right-wing rallies and counter-protests that have ended in violence, this famously liberal city is bracing for an influx of far-right activists outfitted for combat and talking of bringing guns to a political rally here on Saturday, August 4. → Read More
Forget Impeachment — Here Are 7 Other Ways Donald Trump’s Presidency Might Go Down in Flames
Trump is sowing the seeds of his own demise There’s an ironclad rule with Republican presidents — the greater their authoritarianism and incompetence, the more spectacular the destruction they cause. → Read More
Forget Impeachment — Here are 7 other ways Donald Trump's presidency might go down in flames
There’s an ironclad rule with Republican presidents — the greater their authoritarianism and incompetence, the more spectacular the destruction they cause. Richard Nixon’s paranoia led to Watergate, forcing him to resign in 1974. Gerald Ford took over, but was overwhelmed by a deep recession and pushed out in two years. Ronald Reagan’s embrace of criminals and terrorists spawned the Iran-Contra… → Read More